BACKGROUND Subcoracoid impingement has been implicated as a cause of anterior shoulder pain and subscapularis tendon tears. PURPOSE/HYPOTHESIS The purpose of this study was to evaluate the bony anatomy of the coracoid process and the subcoracoid space. We hypothesized that age-related changes that may contribute to subcoracoid impingement occur in the subcoracoid space. STUDY DESIGN Descrip...

This saying was already a popular metaphor in the middle ages, and still is. A contemporary meaning of this would be: one who discovers by building on discoveries made by predecessors. And in this issue of the European Respiratory Journal, CHANG et al. [1] have done exactly that. Appreciating and using the ideas of a classical physiological study [2], and combining this with the results of mode...

The title of this piece refers to Newton’s only known modest remark: “If I have seen farther than other men, it was because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.” Since he himself was so much greater than his predecessors, he was in fact standing on the shoulders of dwarfs, a much less attractive metaphor. I intend no comparisons with Newton inwhat follows: NLP/CL has noNewtons and noNobel...

We retrospectively reviewed 21 patients (22 shoulders) who presented with deep infection after surgery to the shoulder, 17 having previously undergone hemiarthroplasty and five open repair of the rotator cuff. Nine shoulders had undergone previous surgical attempts to eradicate their infection. The diagnosis of infection was based on a combination of clinical suspicion (16 shoulders), positive ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the relationship between a number of clinically relevant variables and sonographic imaging data in respect to the level of impairment experienced in the affected and unaffected shoulders of hemiplegic stroke patients. METHOD Fifty-one hemiplegic stroke patients (32 males, 19 females; 29 right-sided hemiplegics, 22 left-sided hemiplegics) participated in this study. A musc...

A radiological study of the intraprosthetic movements of a bipolar shoulder replacement was undertaken in 25 shoulders in 20 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and rotator cuff arthropathy. No significant difference was found between intraprosthetic movement and shell - glenoid movement. Some shoulders were found to exhibit paradoxical movement at the intraprosthetic interface. Repeating the me...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic adhesive capsulitis is defined as a frozen shoulder with severe and global range-of-motion loss of unknown etiology. The purpose of our study was to clarify the prevalence of rotator cuff lesions according to patterns and severity of range-of-motion loss in a large cohort of patients with stiff shoulders. METHODS Rotator cuff pathology was prospectively investigated with...